9.1481, Calls: Nominal Expressions, Language & Culture
LINGUIST Network
linguist at linguistlist.org
Thu Oct 22 22:28:13 UTC 1998
LINGUIST List: Vol-9-1481. Thu Oct 22 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.
Subject: 9.1481, Calls: Nominal Expressions, Language & Culture
Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>
Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>
Associate Editors: Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org>
Brett Churchill <brett at linguistlist.org>
Ljuba Veselinova <ljuba at linguistlist.org>
Assistant Editors: Scott Fults <scott at linguistlist.org>
Jody Huellmantel <jody at linguistlist.org>
Karen Milligan <karen at linguistlist.org>
Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
Chris Brown <chris at linguistlist.org>
Zhiping Zheng <zzheng at online.emich.edu>
Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/
Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karen at linguistlist.org>
==========================================================================
As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations
or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in
the text.
=================================Directory=================================
1)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:10:03 +0100
From: Rodger.Kibble at itri.brighton.ac.uk (Rodger Kibble)
Subject: Nominal Expressions
2)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:53:21 -0500
From: SALSA at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Language and Culture
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:10:03 +0100
From: Rodger.Kibble at itri.brighton.ac.uk (Rodger Kibble)
Subject: Nominal Expressions
First Announcement and Call For Papers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ESSLLI-99 workshop on
The Generation of Nominal Expressions
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
9-13 August 1999
Context:
The workshop will take place in association with the 11th
European Summer School "Logic Linguistics and Information"
(ESSLLI), to be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 9-20
August 1999. The format of the workshop is 5 x 90 minutes on
the 5 consecutive days of 9 to 13 August 1999.
The ESSLLI Summer School is organized under the auspices of the
European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI).
Previous ESSLLI Summer Schools have been highly successful,
attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The
school has developed into an important meeting place and forum
for discussion for students and researchers interested in the
interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.
For more information see http://esslli.let.uu.nl.
Workshop Description:
If someone attempted to assess the `state of the art' of
linguistic research on nominal expressions by looking at
how present-day programs generate nominals, he or she would
no doubt underestimate gravely the level of sophistication
of theoretical work on nominals. It can be argued that this is
because existing work on the computational generation of nominals
has limited itself to relatively simple nominals, often focussing
on simple (singular) definite descriptions and pronouns.
Alternatively, it might be contended that much of the theoretical
work in this area is not mature enough to be appicable in
generation. Be this as it may, work on the generation of nominals
has not profited much from theoretical research in formal semantics
and psycholinguistics on the meaning, interpretation and production
of nominal expressions.
This workshop will try to bridge the gap between theory and
practice in this area by focusing on the generation of nominal
expressions of different linguistic types including, for example,
indefinite and quantificational NPs (of different monotonicity
types).
The theme of the workshop is closely related to that of a number
of ongoing research projects, including the GNOME (`Generation of
NOMinal Expressions') project, in which the ITRI (Brighton) and
HCRC (Edinburgh/Durham) collaborate, and which is funded by the
EPSRC in the United Kingdom.
Topics for which submissions are invited include:
(1) The influence of discourse context on the appropriateness
and interpretation of a nominal expression
(2) Descriptive issues concerning the treatment of plurality,
bridging, aggregation, eventualities, reference to text,
cross-modal reference, etc.
(3) Representational issues (i.e., what kind of meaning
representations should form the input to the generation
algorithm?)
(4) Reversibility of grammars
(5) Differences in textual style or `genre'
(6) Psycholinguistic research relevant to computational
Natural Language Generation (NLG)
(7) Corpus-based work leading to insights relevant for
computational NLG
(8) Issues of system/algorithm evaluation.
Practical issues:
We welcome short (i.e., roughly 1000-1500 words) electronic
submissions (send email to Rodger.Kibble at itri.brighton.ac.uk)
on the theme of the workshop. Submissions should be in Postscript
or plain ascii. Please include "ESSLLI99" in the Subject line of
your message to make things easy for us.
In accordance with the description of the Workshop Description,
we encourage submissions about theoretical (e.g., formal semantic
or psycholinguistic), applied, or corpus-based work, as long as
the work is clearly relevant for NLG programs. No matter what
they consider the main focus of their work, we ask authors to
*stress relevance for NLG* in their submission (and, later, in
their presentation). This will ensure that all contributions will
contain a common `core', notwithstanding their differences in
perspective.
It is ESSLLI's practice to make sure that workshops go ahead only
if there turns out to be a sufficient level of interest, based on
quantity and quality of submissions.
Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School;
however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced
rate to be determined by the Organizing Committee. Limited funds
are available to contribute to speakers' expenses in exceptional
circumstances.
Important dates:
- First call for papers: 22 October 1998
- Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 1 March 1999
- Notification of acceptance: 1 May 1999
- Workshop to be held: August 9-13
For any questions, please contact the organizers or
consult our web page at
<http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/gnome/esslli99.html>
which will shortly be available.
Rodger Kibble & Kees van Deemter
Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
University of Brighton
Lewes Road, Watts Building
Brighton BN2 4GJ
United Kingdom
Email: Rodger.Kibble at itri.brighton.ac.uk
Kees.van.Deemter at itri.brighton.ac.uk
Fax: +44 1273 642908
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:53:21 -0500
From: SALSA at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Language and Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
S A L S A
The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its
Seventh Annual Meeting to be held
April 9-11, 1999 at the University of Texas at Austin. We encourage the
submission of abstracts on research that
addresses the relationship of language to culture and society. Desired
frameworks include but are not limited to:
LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION
SPEECH PLAY, VERBAL ART, AND POETICS
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LANGUAGE
1999 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jill Brody
Louisiana State University
Charles Goodwin
University of California, Los Angeles
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Keating
University of Texas at Austin
Selected papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special
edition of the Texas Linguistic Forum.
Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for
discussion. Papers will be selected based
on the evaluation of an anonymous written abstract which may not exceed one
page (using 10 pt. font or larger).
Please submit:
1) six (6) copies of the abstract, on 81/2 x 11 paper, to the address
below.
2) a 3x5 card with the following information:
a) The title of the paper
b) Author's name
c) Author's affiliation
d) Address, phone number, and email address at which the author
wishes to be notified.
3) a short 100 word abstract, on a 3.5" disk (Mac or PC), for
publication in the conference program.
Texts must be word-processed in text-only ASCII or Microsoft Word
(Mac or PC). Please label your disk clearly.
See the SALSA web page for more details:
http:\\www.dla.utexas.edu\depts\anthro\projects\salsa
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 15, 1999. Late submissions
will not be accepted, and we cannot accept
papers which are to be published elsewhere. Notification of acceptance or
rejection will be sent in mid-February,
1999. Registration fees will be approximately $20 for students and $35
for non-students. Papers must be received
by early June, 1999 to be included in the published proceedings.
Send all correspondence to:
SALSA
Department of Linguistics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
email: SALSA at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Anastasia Coles
Amanda Doran
Nisha Merchant Goss
SALSA VII Co-chairs
SALSA at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-9-1481
More information about the LINGUIST
mailing list